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See history. Explore history. Understand history.REVEL™ for Visions of America: A History of the United States uses images as primary historical evidence to bring history to life for a generation of visual learners. Emphasizing how key choices and competing visions of America shaped our nation’s past, authors Jennifer Keene, Saul Cornell, and Edward O’Donnell help students realize that history is not just an endless list of names and dates, but the fascinating tale of human experience. In addition to updated visuals, REVEL for the Third Edition includes chapter-level learning objectives tied to a set of learning outcomes for the course, which help instructors evaluate and demonstrate student achievement.

REVEL is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, REVEL replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, REVEL is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.

NOTE: REVEL is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone REVEL access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use REVEL.

Jennifer D. Keene is a Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011). She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship, a National Research Council Postdoctoral Award, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France. Her articles have appeared in the Annales de Démographie Historique, Peace & Change, the Journal of Contemporary History, Intelligence and National Security, Military Psychology, The Historian, and the Journal of American History. Dr. Keene was an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005), which won the Society of Military History’s prize for best reference book. She has served as a historical consultant for exhibits and films, and as an associate editor of the Journal of First World War Studies. She is also a general editor for the “1914 1918-online,” a peer-reviewed online encyclopedia at http://www.1914-1918-online.net/, a major digital humanities project.

Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University in New York. Professor Cornell has also taught at Ohio State University, the College of William and Mary, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and the University of Connecticut Law School. He is the author of A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control (Langum Prize in Legal History) and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788—1828 (Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, Law and History Review, the Yale Law Journal, and dozens of leading law reviews. His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and several state supreme courts. He is a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution. He lectures widely on topics in legal and constitutional history and the use of visual materials to teach American history.

Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He taught previously at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Random House, 2003) and Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (Columbia University Press, 2015). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian. He is also very active in the field of public history, curating exhibits and consulting at institutions such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the New York Historical Society. Since 2002, he has worked with more than fifty Teaching American History grant programs across the country, offering lectures and workshops for middle and high school teachers.

1. People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 15902. Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590–17103. Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710–17634. Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764–17835. A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783–17896. The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789–18007. Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800–18248. Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820–18409. Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815–184810. Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820–185011. “To Overspread the Continent”: Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840–184812. Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848–186113. A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861–186514. Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863–189015. Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860–190016. Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865–190017. Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877–190018. Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895–191519. Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890–191420. The Great War: World War I, 1914–191821. A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties22. A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929–194023. World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939–194524. A Divided World: The Early Cold World, 1945–196325. In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945–196026. A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945–197527. A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the 1960s28. Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s29. Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989–2015